Random Worst Things Escape Room Employees Have Seen (15 items)

• (#1) Surprise Marriage Proposals? Not Always The Best Idea

  From GloriousTuna:

  "We've had around 3 proposals in the escape rooms so far...The second was sh*tty. We were not informed at all. The girl was chained and blindfolded in a small, black box room. No idea why he thought that would be a good place to propose."

   
• (#2) If You Do Propose, Be Sure They'll Say Yes

  From Kingslayer266: 

  "Guy had called us way ahead of time and said he's going to propose to his GF in the room. We help him set up a custom box in the room and alter a puzzle. He proposes early on in the room, she says no straight up, THEN THEY AWKWARDLY FINISH THE ROOM. Meanwhile when they got out I had to go up and weirdly congratulate them on getting out and guide them back out through the door. Worst 10 minutes of my life."
• (#3) Keep The Props Out Of Your Mouth

  From Null_pntr: 

  "We did an escape room one time where there were these jars with severed limbs in them. When we got out we commented to the guy running it that we found it interesting that the jars were cement glued shut, cement glued to the shelf, and the shelf screwed to the wall. Seemed like over kill to us.

  Well apparently the reason they do this was because another group had managed to pry the jars away from the shelf and open the jars. This is about when they realized, watching the cameras, that something was going on. So they rush in to see what's up and they hear "Guys! We have to drink the water!" The nasty part was that the water was out of the local river a few blocks away, to get that dirty murky look."
• (#4) Sobriety Is Appreciated, But Not Technically Required

  From nadroj37:

  "What drives a group of people to get highly intoxicated and go do something that involves using your brain? I have no idea, but it happens a lot.

  It was a girl's 21st birthday and everyone was drunk, but she was plastered. She ended up lying on the floor and not moving, and we didn't know if she was okay, so we sent someone in to check on her. She said she was just resting and laughed it off. Later, the same girl laughed so hard that she fell down and p*ssed all on the floor."
• (#5) Don't Destroy The Room, Seriously

  From DontYouDareGoHollow: 

  "I had been there for 10 hours and a group was playing a room with a locked door as the main focus of the first half, and I kind of stopped watching the screen for a few minutes only to look back and see that they had used a handcuff key to remove the hinges and take the door off the frame. I couldn't really do anything at that point so I just kind of had to let them continue."
• (#6) People Can Forget To Play Pretend

  From IntenseItalian: 

  "In one of our rooms, we have an actor pose as a spy, and the people in the room had to solve a case to figure out who the traitor was. After they finished the puzzles, it turns out the traitor was actually the spy the actor was playing. The spy then pulls an obviously prop gun (orange tip and whatnot), and the group has to defuse a fake bomb. One of the groups that did this room was a police squad that was doing this to bond. When the actor pulled the fake gun and said some cheesy lines, he was promptly tackled and restrained until the cops realized it was all a game."
• (#7) Night Vision Cameras See What You Do In The Dark

  From CheetahChester: 

  "There's a game where I work that's played completely in darkness. It's a 2-player game that begins with both players separated by a wall. There's a slot in the wall for the players to pass things through to each other... at about waist level. You can see where this is going. 

  A cheeky couple gets locked in and the man almost immediately whips it out and 'passes' it to her side, reassuring her that 'they can't see anything, babe.' We could see everything. The icing on the cake was the booming godly voice we used over the speakers to remind them that even though they couldn't see in the dark, night-vision security cameras are a different story."

   
• (#8) Parents Can Be Pretty Tough On Their Kids

  From Se7enkb: 

  "Two parents brought their 3 children to our escape room and yelled at them for an hour because the kids 'weren't smart enough to break the record.' The parents didn't help at all they stood in the corner and literally yelled at all 3 children."
• (#9) Not Every Door Is An Escape

  From Magnolious: 

  "We have this false door who leads to a wall which is to make people believe that's the way they came in (they're blindfolded at first). One guy was so happy that he found the 'last' key in record time, when he opened the door, he slammed his head so hard that the group in the next room got scared."
• (#10) Nudity Is Never The Solution

  From lacinyc: 

  "Locked a couple of guys in the cage and then came back and they'd stripped naked. I just left them to it."
• (#11) Hardcore Escape Artists Really Do Exist

  From WitlessWit: 

  "I had a group pre-book several zones in advance for a big group of 10-15 people. They arrived from another city in a limo with matching t-shirts, announcing that they've 'conquered' their city and that they were here to conquer Toronto. This is my go to memory whenever other players ask me if anyone gets really into the escape zones."
• (#12) For Some, Failure Is Unacceptable

  From Avvyface: 

  "Had a group of engineers with Ph.Ds come do our hardest room. I explained the hint system to them, like how I will ask them if they want a hint if they look like they're stuck. They were about 15 minutes in and hadn't solved anything, so I asked them if they wanted a hint. The guy looked at the camera and said, 'Burn in hell' not jokingly. They only solved 3 puzzles."
• (#13) The Mannequins Aren't Really Out To Get You

  From Kingslayer266: 

  "Another room is a ransom type room where your child has been kidnapped. When the people (all 30's and 40's) popped open the secret room where the kidnapper was hiding, a lady literally sh*t herself when she saw the mannequin kidnapper.

  Straight up sh*t herself right there. I let my manager deal with it"
• (#14) Please Don't Come Prepared

  From TheChokeMaster: 

  "I had a group pull out a tool kit. They unscrewed every furniture to find some combinations. They didn't escape and I made them fix everything, took them about an hour."
• (#15) Not Everyone Wants To Escape

  From AnArmedPenguin: 

  "Someone cleared all the boxes and locks off of a table in the corner, laid down on it, and went to sleep until the group escaped."

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